“Congregational Life,” in For Everything a Season: Mennonite Brethren In North America, 1874-2002, an Informal History, edited by Paul Toews and Kevin Enns-Rempel, published by Kindred Productions, 2002

Review of Calling God Father: Essays on the Bible, Fatherhood, and Culture, by John W. Miller, in The Conrad Grebel Review, Winter 2001

“She Hath Done What She Could: the Development of the Women’s Missionary Service in the Mennonite Brethren Churches of the United States,” in Bridging Troubled Waters: The Mennonite Brethren at Mid-Twentieth Century, published by Kindred Productions, 1995

My primary mission in teaching is to encourage students to deepen their love for the church and its complexities, and to gain both knowledge and appreciation for the Christian tradition. I want students to think about what they believe and why they believe it and to see how those beliefs have been shaped by their theological tradition, their culture and their own experience. As an Anabaptist, I am also committed to the belief that theological reflection is a community task. I want to encourage students to engage in theological conversation with each other as preparation for ministry in the church and world.

Valerie Rempel, Ph.D.

Dean of the Seminary, Associate Professor, J.B. Toews Chair of History and Theology

I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.